by: Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Life Spacies II is an interactive artificial life environment where users can create artificial creatures by typing text messages. The text characters function as genetic code for the creature's design. Each different text will create a different creature. Depending on their construction, creatures can move fast or slowly. Creatures will move around and try to eat text characters. Creatures eat the same text characters as their genetic code is made of. Once a creature has eaten enough text it can look for a partner creature and mate. Offspring creatures will look similar to their parents as their genetic code is the product of artificial evolution.
